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EHWD Technical and Operations Manual with appendices.pdf
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Owner: Tosi, Delia (User-511, detosi:LDAP)DS
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- Chapter 1: Introduction to Hot Water Drilling 1-1 Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 1: INTRODUCTION TO HOT WATER DRILLING 1.1 Introduction: Hot water drilling is used in situations where access holes in ice are required in very quick time. - Due to the fact that a given volume of ice will result in a smaller volume of water when it is melted (as shown in Figure 1.1), the volume of water pumped back out of the hole can only be about 90% of the water deposited. - Over time this causes the surrounding ice to melt and results in a reservoir of water. - The heaters are scaled to provide the required water temperature rise at the required flow rate. - If this drill head is a larger diameter th...
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